In the states where marriage equality is on the ballot this year, NOM and its local surrogates have launched their usual late-in-campaign barrage of lying homophobic ads veiled in a veneer of reasonableness.<\/p>\n
One of their main tactics is to say (paraphrased) “If gay marriage is legalized, children will be taught it in school<\/em>.” It sounds so scary! I can imagine thousands of ordinary straight parents thinking “I don't have anything against gays, but I don't want the schools turning my kids gay!”<\/p>\n I, personally, think that it's a good idea for schools to teach kids about reality. If in some context a school is teaching students about marriage, and they're in a state where you can get married to someone you love regardless of their gender, then yes, of course the school should mention that marriage is not limited to opposite-sex couples. You'd rather that our schools lie to our kids? After all, there's nothing wrong with being gay<\/a>.<\/p>\n But I recognize that my above approach is not a good one for convincing those concerned straight parents. Fortunately, the pro-marriage-equality people in Maine are way better at this than I am, and they've produced this awesome 30-second ad<\/a> addressing the issue:<\/p>\n